Health & Safety

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Assignment 703 on
Health and safety in catering and hospitality
Task A
Regulations and responsibility
Health and Safety Regulations aim to improve safety in workplaces, making employers and employees equally responsible for ensuring that they protect themselves and others from accident and injury. The regulations refer to such things as clean kitchens, safety guards on machinery etc., If an employee is injured at work because of breaches of these rules then compensation can be awarded. Most health and safety legislation places place the responsibility of health and safety on the employers. The responsibilities may however be delegated to other competent persons such as fire warders, first aiders and care takers but the employer still…show more content…

Work place design and risk assessment
In a catering firm, the work place design and risk assessment is carried out by catering manager. Example; if a catering unit employs, 10 permanent staff and, an young person of 16 years only to work on weekends, then an employment permit need to be obtained from the local authority for employing the 16 year old person. Secondly, the business hours of the firm between 9.00 am and 10.00pm, and need to make sure it opens and close at the prescribed time. Finally, have to set up all the health and safety signs, equipments are supplied and make sure all the employees are following the rules.
To assess the risk, the manager need to be looked at the HSE webpage about catering and hospitality and also about young people employment. Secondly, to assess the workplace risk, the manager has to walk around all the areas of the kitchen and note things which can cause risk under the guide line of HSE. Thirdly, talk to the employees and identify their experience and concern, especially need to take particular care for any young person working. Fourthly, accident book need to be looked at and understand the risks caused accident previously. Finally, the manager, writs down what controls can be done in order to reduce risk in the work place and also acts upon it. In normal cases the risk assessment will be carried out every year.

Hazards and risks
In a workplace such as catering environment, majority of the injuries are caused as a

Workplace Health and Safety
A quick start to the workplace health & safety act 1995
How do you meet your obligations?
You must meet your obligations under the
Act. This can be done in different ways,
but you are obliged to take action to
manage exposure to risk.
Workplace health and safety standards
Regulations -- some regulations are
workplace health and safety standards
that either prohibit exposure to a risk or
prescribe ways to prevent or minimise
exposure to a risk.
To meet…

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Identify legislation relating to health and safety in a health and social care setting.
Fire Precautions Act 1971
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR)
Health And Safety of Work Act 1974
Manual Handling Operations Regulation 1992
Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health regulation 2002 (COSHH)
These are the main principles of health and safety legislation that applies to a health care setting. By following these acts can…

Risk in the Context of Health and Safety
In its most basic form, risk can be defined as the likelihood or possibility of the occurrence of harm. According to Hughes and Ferret (2009), "a risk is the likelihood of a substance, activity or process to cause harm." Similarly, Barnard (1998) identifies risk as the likelihood of an individual being harmed by a hazard. According to the author, walking (or running) across a wet floor can be regarded a risk. In the context of health, risk can be taken to…

"The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 heralded a new era in the history of public efforts to protect workers from harm on the job. This Act established for the first time a nationwide, federal program to protect almost the entire work force from job-related death, injury and illness," (MacLaury). Occupational health and safety awareness pre-dates OSHA by decades, though, and it is important to place the administration within its historical context. The Industrial Revolution in the late…

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Health and safety in catering and hospitality
Task A
Regulations and responsibility
Health and Safety Regulations aim to improve safety in workplaces, making employers and employees equally responsible for ensuring that they protect themselves and others from accident and injury. The regulations refer to such things as clean kitchens, safety guards on machinery etc., If an employee is injured at work because of breaches of these rules then compensation can be awarded. Most health and safety…

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Project Title: Health and Safety at Work
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Word Count: 2,395
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Introduction
John hired me to be the safety advisor for his new company. I will be looking at the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and General Regulations 2007. This will give John the outline of what he has to do too have a correct Health and Safety policy. I will be doing the risk assessment…

Describe the requirements for a health and safe workplace in terms of the physical environment and the equipment at a selected work organisation.
Physical Environment.
.Potential for falling objects – The employer or employee must make sure that all items of equipment, materials and tools that are not in use must be stored/stacked correctly and securely. Otherwise, there is a potential that the item/item may fall and injure a person.
.Sharp edges and trailing leads – Sharp edges…

Task 1: OHS Laws and Institutional Frameworks
The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act sets out the laws about health and safety requirements affecting workplaces, work activities and the use of plant and substances. Besides that, the OHS Act is an essential framework in the workplace to cultivate good safety habits in all individuals so as to stimulate a strong safety culture in the workplace. The Act establishes a framework for people by preventing or minimising their exposure to risk.
One…